 Few sets of foul papers actually exist from the era in question.Of the relatively small number of dramas that are extant in manuscript, the majority are from the (1625–1660) rather than the Elizabethan and Jacobean era (1558–1625), and most are fair copies of plays by professional scribes like Ralph Crane.In a rare direct reference to foul papers and fair copies, Robert Daborne mentions both in a November 1613 letter to theatrical manager Philip Henslowe